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O’Neil said: “There are a lot of good players who could have the shirt on the first day so we’re all fighting for that.

“Hopefully I can do enough over the next few games to put a little marker on and see what happens.

“All I want right now is to get a starting place and help the team get promoted, but it’s a team game and we’ll have to look and see what happens.

“Joe (Dunne, assistant head coach), Mick (Halsall, first-team coach) and Pilks (Kevin Pilkington, goalkeeping coach) have done really well with the gaffer (Shaun Derry) being away and I think we’re in the right place at the moment for pre-season.”